Norwich No.056
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern BRGBWRWBWRWBGRBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3187
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1870 — Norwich No.056 (register-of-tartans, record)
From a pattern book belonging to C & F Bolingbroke & Jones of Norwich (England) which was compiled prior to 1870 and is at present (2002) in the possession of Norwich Museum. Bolingbroke & Jones closed in the 1890s. - undated — Unidentified #27 (register-of-tartans, record)
This sett is taken from the records of Messrs Bolingbroke and Jones of Norwich, who were weavers around 1870. Some of the tartans have been adopted or modified in recent times as the copyright of the designs is now in the public domain. This collection is now in the Scottish Tartans Society archive.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 1870 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 4228
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5559
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 654
Thread count
R/10 DB2 R10 G26 DB16 LB10 R10 W2 DB6 W2 R10 LB10 DB16 G26 R10 DB/2
One full sett is 324 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s9/r5db1r5g13db8lb5r5w1db3~x2/